Occupation: Poet Birth: March 23, 1955
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and pond….
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold..
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors'….
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals..
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it..
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen..
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the h….
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology..
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue..
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle..
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness..
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory..
Enlightenment should be a human right..
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer..
There must be engagement: there must be protest..
There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson..
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what demo….
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others..
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for powe….
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory….
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered….